Plan Team Game

Is your team game a good learning game? Why? What would you add to the Hobo's Journey game to improve it? What would you add to the Larry game to improve it?

 Yes our game is a good learning game because we are actually going to give facts about poverty. I would change the Hobo Journey by making the game more interesting and also add like a little game because just asking questions is boring.I would add instructions to the game because the keyboard control and also in the drag and drop well explain it more clearly.

Imagine Team Game

• WHO are you designing your game for? (Include the player's age, abilities, and prior knowledge of your topic.) How will you make sure your game is not hurtful to any group of people?Well this is meant for like 5th graders through 8th graders,i will make sure that this not going to offend the homeless.
• WHAT will your game teach the player about your topic? (Be specific.)If you are making a social issue game, how will you show multiple perspectives?The game is going to teach you how a house could make a big impact in someones life.
• WHERE does your game happen?Describe the world you will design for your game.How will this setting add to the learning experience?Well the setting of the game is going to be in a building site.Well the designing of the world is just going tot be like an everyday look,well your going to be building a house and if you build a house its supposed to go with the weather and stuff.
• HOW does your game world teach the player about your topic?What happens in the world that helps the player learn?How does the player use what they learned to make something happen in the game?Well your just building a house were you want it or where there is a space available,helps to give donors to the organization.

Choose game team topic

My team chosed Austin Habitat for Humanity because we felt that poverty was a big thing for us.We decided this organization because we have a good game idea.

First Game Idea

http://www.austinhabitat.org/

i would like to have this as my game topic because i have a really good idea to make this a game, and plus i think its a really good non-profit organisation. Like was thinking to make the game like a drag or drop  game like i will draw the tools and like you have to chose the one we need to build the house then later on,on the game build the outline of the house and all of the stuff that you did you build the house and yeah thats what i was thinking  how to do my game if if you gave me this topic.

Notes

http://boneshaker.org/
To inspire kids towards daily physical activity, and encourage them to lead others to pursue healthier lifestyles.

https://www.facebook.com/TheMiracleFoundation.org
Help care for orphans provided them with food,shelter and beds

http://www.withoutregrets.org/

Help children with ill pearents have a fun and memmoriable time.

http://www.gsctx.org/

Help young women to becom a leader.

http://pajamaprogram.org/WordPress/

its a program that helps give books and new warm pajamas to kids in shelters

 -http://www.austinhabitat.org/

Helps with building homes for people to end proverty

Interactive Mini Game

What have you learned about building a game that surprises you? How does it change the way you look at games you like to play?

Well i already had made a mini game but it dosent really surprise me.It dosent really change the way i look at games that i like to play i really dont play game anyways so yeah.

Presenting Hidden Object game

• The Big Idea: Describe your learning topic for the game. What is the most important thing you want your players to learn?

My learning topic is science and it is about dinosaurs,i want the players to know there carnivorousness dinosaurs.

• Research: What kind of research did you do? What did you learn about your topic?

I did some dinosaur research,i learned about different kinds of dinosaurs and what time period they lived on.

• Making Decisions: How did your ideas change as you worked on your game?

It changed a lot i had this one idea and it completely changed trough out the research then when i was working on it, it changed again.

• Mastering Programming: What Game Ingredients and Help Center resources have been most useful to you so far, and why?

Of course the codes helped me a lot i used mostly all the game ingredients(add game ingredients). It helped me because it gave me the codes to the game ingredients i wanted to use.

• Overcoming Challenges: Which part of making the game was most difficult for you? How did you overcome this difficulty? What features are you most proud of in your game?

The most difficult thing when i was working on my game has to be the programming i had to look over the code look at the instance name and ask for some help.The features that I'm most proud of is my dinosaurs i free hand drew that i think they are beautiful.Part 2
Name of the game: English Language Games
What were you looking for? Objects that don't belong in the classroom
Was the game fun to play? Explain why. No,not really i was just clicking around the game.
How does the designer reward you and keep you playing? To look for stuff that you haven't clicked on
What does this game teach you?Things that are not spouse to be in the class room.
How does it use hidden objects to teach you?Making the things to disappear and make it seam like if the classroom did have noting bad
What age group would find this educational?8-10 yrs.
What would you add to this game if you had a chance to work on it? A box that it tells you what you need to look for

Add Game Ingredients

Adding game ingredients was kinda easy,but the hard thing was like if something would of worked it was annoying. One problem that i had was the win and lose page it would work for something and i couldn't figured it out in till like one week later so yeah that was a problem.Another problem was withe the background music it was like not working out so i had to fix that and i figured out why it wouldn't stop making the noise because i had the settings on loop(i figured that on today 11/14/12).But oter wise it was really easy.

Hidden Objects

Programming the hidden objects it was really easy especially because i did this  lesson a bunch of times. I would like to add screens that say you win and lose. Also to make the objects glow when you go over the object.

Drawing a Background

Drawing a background was like really easy for me but then i had saw the tutorial and I learned new some techniques.Now my back ground looks kinda realistic(always learning).

Paper Prototype 1

What problems did it help you to solve with your game idea?

Well I thought of it the same way so i knew what i was going to do.

PLAN GAME SCENE

I would have like a word and you have to find all the dinosaurs that fit in that category like the insect game.I would do the same in a different level but with an other word.If you finish a level you well like get a fact about a dinosaur.I would have like a jungle or a cave with dinosaurs well hidden.

Choosing learning Topic

My topic is about dinosaurs i like this idea because I love dinosaurs I will use this idea by putting in a category like carnivorousness then you are needed to find all the carnivorousness dinosaurs.Then when you pass it you go to herbivore dinosaurs and you do the same so that what i imagine my hidden object game.I will be using rule #2 find objects that fit a specific category or criteria.

Play to Learn Part 1

I learned that it best to camouflage the objects like in ''Dirty Water'' also to like put a hint button in my game because i want to make it it challenging but not to challenging that you cant find anything. Also to give information why is that related to the game like little fun facts.I also want to conclude the object list were you have to find the things that it says to find.I also want to put like something coming in the screen if you are taking to long to find something.

This School Year

This school year has been CRAZY and fun at the same time I had made new friends and still have my old friends. I was in some drama already but it was stupid. This year i am going to pass all my classes but this year i started rough but it is going to get better.My goal is to be NICE also to make A's and B's but if possible all A's. I also want to try out for sports and stuff like clubs if there is any. But this school year has been really awesome though (SO FAR).

The Globey in the spotlight

1. What did you think about the article?
Its really awesome because it is talking about us that how we are only  12-14 year old making a game.

2. How did it make you feel to read about your school and Globaloria, a program that you participate in.
I felt really good like i feel we are one step closer to being Exemplary

3. If your game was featured in the article, how did it make you feel? Proud, happy?
My game wasn't anominated

4. If your game was not featured in the article, what would you like for the author to have said about your game? 

Well nothing because my game wasn't finish but if it was they should of said that my game was the awesomest

5. Which game do you think the author should have mentioned in his article and why? What About Me? because it had really good art

Forks Over Knives

What do you think this documentary will be about? I think this documentary is  going to be about food.
What do you think the title implies or indicates about the film?
You use forks and knives but you use more the fork then the knives
Notes

In the poor side there is a lot of fast food restaurant right next to each other. 

Rats that ate 20% had more higher rates with diseases than the rats that had 5% and remained healthy. 

Most research says that people who had cancer in their family got it but people who didn't have it in their family got it from their diet.

My Comments

Disaster
I like your game because its a maze like thing and plus it is challenging for me and nice I like the elephant and the cherries.

Forest Rats

I really love the way you create your beginning it is like really cool.I also like the way you did your little mouse its adorable. hope you win.

Addiction

I really liked your game it was kind of challenging for me.I also liked your intro screen.

My top Three Choices

"My Top Three Choices"
diaster,the packers,5-ll arcos


forest rats,green bugs,3-lll arcos


adiction,shigri,5-ll arcos

Respect

 Respect_What does it mean to you?

Respect is to me ,being polite have good manners and don't interrupt people when they are talking.

What does it look like?

*In the classroom we show it by listing what other people have to say and also being polite by not interrupting other students when they are talking.

*In the computer lab we show it by not breaking the computers and  by using the resources wisely.

*In the hallways we show it by being friendly to each other.

*During breakfast/lunch we show it by using our table manners like saying excuse me when you burp don't talk with your mouth full etc.

*When we have visitors on campus we answer what they ask us like What are we doing? and also be polite. 

*When we visit other  places we like don't touch if they say to not touch something also don't touch things if they are not yours be polite to the people and resources that are in that place.